-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.nitronews.com/thomas.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.nitronews.com/thomas.html">Nitro News - Kenn Thomas</A> ----- DIANA: MODERN MOON GODDESS QUEEN OF NEW WORLD ORDER By Kenn Thomas Conspiracy Columnist [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently went on an infotainment program called Extra, on the Fox Network, to again call for an investigation into the death of Jim Keith, my former writing partner and the person who started this column for Nitro News. It occurred to me that an extraordinary lack of attention remains about this story in the mainstream media. The Reno coroner issued a denial of the possibility of conspiracy, but Extra was the first national program to bring it up. This stands as quite a contrast to Danny Casolaro, a relatively unknown writer whose death made many national headlines. Why is it that Keith, a well-known and popular writer on conspiracy subjects, has not yet ranked such attention? For the sake of trying to enourage more media attention, I tapped another friend of his, Robert Sterling. Sterling publishes the e-newsletter Konformist . He provides the following review and closer examination of the story that may have led to Jim Keith's demise - the mysterious death of Princess Diana: On August 31, 1997, Lady Diana died in a car crash (along with her boyfriend, Egyptian playboy Dodi Fayed). Officially, the accident was caused by the couple's chauffeur, who allegedly was drunk behind the wheel, driving their Mercedes over 100mph while being chased by photographers. Over the internet, other versions of what happened traveled quickly, including the most popular one: Her "car accident" was caused by British Intelligence agents (working in league with the CIA) in retaliation for her alleged plans to marry Dodi. Whatever merits such conspiracy theories have, the dissemination of them is a milestone event in the history of conspiracy and the internet, an Alvin Toffler-esque moment of Future Shock where the alternative reality was promoted as fast as the official one. Compare it to the lag time between the kill shot of JFK and the Oliver Stone film on the subject 28 years later, and the death of Lady Di represents a significant moment in information distribution. The Diana conspiracy was widely distributed (and believed) for one simple reason: it was quite plausible, and it certainly fit the circumstances of the accident. Though the British Establishment would prefer people to believe otherwise, there is little doubt it is inherently racist, and would've been offended if Diana had married a dark-skinned Arab Muslim. The fact that Dodi Fayed came from a rich and powerful Arabic family made him a dangerous outsider as well (his father was billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed, and his cousin was Syrian arms merchant and Iran-Contra player Adnan Khashoggi, both of whom have lots of dirt on many British bigwigs). Besides that, Diana had long been an annoyance to the British Monarchy, and was starting to become more politicized with her call for an international ban on land mines. Enough was enough. Then there's the whole official "drunk driver" explanation, which under any examination makes little sense. In the September 22, 1997 issue of Time Magazine, they reported on a Time-CNN investigation of Henri Paul's sobriety, published under the neutral title "Drunk And Drugged." Despite the title, right before 10pm, he was at a bar, where he didn't drink, and according to the bartender, "If he'd been drunk, we would have known about it." He soon received a call to go to work. There, Time and CNN could only report that an "unnamed Ritz employee" stated he drank pastis until he got up to go, and then he "staggered" and "knocked into a customer." Yet, if he did get drunk as is claimed, why did Diana, Dodi, or Dodi's bodyguard not notice? And why, even if he could feign sobriety while supposedly being four times over the legally intoxicated limit, did he not inform them of his situation? And how come he looked so perfectly normal on the Ritz Carlton video of him walking to the car? Time tried to dismiss this evidence by describing it as a "jerky, heavily edited tape." Considering all these questions, another plausible explanation for the drunk driver evidence appears: the blood samples in the autopsy were spiked. This wouldn't be any more difficult than to contract the killing itself. This year, Rayelan Allen published a wild and fascinating book called Diana, Queen of Heaven: The New World Religion. In it, she further details her theory, namely that the purported murder was a Masonic occult ritual, and thus the beginning steps of turning Di into a religious icon for the New World Order, a modern day Moon Goddess for the Aquarian Age. Moon Goddess or not, there should be little surprise that even two years after the tragic deaths in France, Diana conspiracy theories are popular, arguably more accepted and believed by the public than the official story itself - except, of course, by the corporate media mouthpieces, who, as usual, promote the status quo party line rather than ask important and serious questions about a high-profile death. If one believes there is a media cover-up going on with the Diana story, the cover-up got a big name participant of late. In the September, 1999 debut issue of Tina Brown's Talk Magazine, among an embarrassing kiss-ass interview with Hillary Macbeth and a pathetic puff piece for George Jr.'s presidential run, was an article by Gerald Posner on Lady Di conspiracy theories. Posner, for those unfamiliar with his work, is the author of Case Closed, a heavily-promoted book which proclaims that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone nut killer after all. Posner is widely viewed in the information underground as the Darth Maul of conspiracy theorists, and any subject that he slashes his saber at deserves extra suspicion. Posner's article, in his usual snide, smug and smarmy style, describes how Dodi's father has apparently been suckered in by all this wacky conspiracy talk, and is convinced it is true. Not that first-rank hatchet writers like Posner are needed to show the mainstream media is slow to critically examine the Diana death: On August 6, Wired reported on its website that the United States has secret files on Lady Di, but refuses to release the material because of "exceptionally grave damage to the national security," quoting the National Security Agency. Rather than question the secrecy surrounding the information, Wired (better known for its cheerleading of hi-tech corporate globalism than investigative reporting) glibly commented, "That's OK. We don't need to see any more photos of Diana romping on a nude beach in southern France anyway." Of course, all great media cover-ups have a suspicious death of a journalist involved to put the icing on the conspiracy cake. The Diana conspiracy got precisely that when famed underground conspiracy author Jim Keith passed away. Keith, the author of many popular conspiracy books on subjects ranging from black helicopters, Men In Black, and the Oklahoma City bombing, had recently begun writing articles for Nitro News. His final article, published just before his death, claimed not only that Diana and Dodi were getting married (which would explain Dodi's purchase of a $250,000 diamond ring for her), but also the bombshell that, according to Dodi Fayed's personal physician, Diana was pregnant with Dodi's child. Soon after this, on September 7, 1999, Jim Keith was dead. Some may argue his death wasn't too suspicious, but it certainly was odd: in surgery from a broken leg (caused by jumping off a three foot stage at the Burning Man festival), allegedly a blood clot was released and entered a lung. And like that, one of the greatest names in conspiracy literature was gone. Conspiracy theorists are by nature a jumpy bunch, but the timing of these two events has left many in the underground information community scratching their heads, wondering if Keith had ended up like Danny Casolaro, the journalist Jim wrote about in the Octopus. If Keith had been killed, it may have been (like the murder of Diana) a lifetime achievement award. The Diana story could have just been the final straw: over his career, Keith had written enough exposes of corruption and deceit to earn a lengthy list of worthy enemies. To some, this is enough to raise questions and suspicions on Keith's death. To others, it is the usual jumping of the gun and drawing conclusions which simply aren't there, behavior that they insist pushed along the Diana and John-John theories. Perhaps it is jumping the gun to state any firm conclusions of foul play in Keith's death, but as the saying goes, an enlightened man is one who can contemplate a notion without embracing it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Read last week's Kenn Thomas column Kenn Thomas is one of America's best known conspiracy writers, with seven published books, a regular magazine called Steamshovel Press ($22/four issues; POB 23715, St. Louis, MO 63121) and a frequently updated website. Thomas lectures widely and appears regularly on television and radio programs, including Rob McConnell's X-Zone, Sightings on the Radio, Strange Daze and Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell (listen). His column is published exclusively in Nitro News every week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Cover | Specials | Columnists | Farce Files | | Talk Back | News Shop | Scoops | About Us | All material is © 1999 Nitro New Media. 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